and browsable, but disable all new backups. Alternatively, you can
completely remove the client and all its backups.
-To disable backups for a client there are two special values for
-$Conf{FullPeriod} in that client's per-PC config.pl file:
+To disable backups for a client $Conf{BackupsDisable} can be
+set to two different values in that client's per-PC config.pl file:
=over 4
-=item -1
+=item 1
Don't do any regular backups on this machine. Manually
requested backups (via the CGI interface) will still occur.
-=item -2
+=item 2
Don't do any backups on this machine. Manually requested
backups (via the CGI interface) will be ignored.
If you don't do this, BackupPC will automatically re-read the
hosts file at the next regular wakeup.
-Note that when you remove a client's backups you won't initially recover
-a lot of disk space. That's because the client's files are still in
-the pool. Overnight, when BackupPC_nightly next runs, all the unused
-pool files will be deleted and this will recover the disk space used
-by the client's backups.
+Note that when you remove a client's backups you won't initially
+recover much disk space. That's because the client's files are
+still in the pool. Overnight, when BackupPC_nightly next runs,
+all the unused pool files will be deleted and this will recover
+the disk space used by the client's backups.
=item Copying the pool